A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...
Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report issued this week in Nature Astronomy by an international team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Auriane Egal of the Montreal ...
While Earth was famously hit by a meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, many others have also hit our planet, many of them ...
An asteroid that entered over France and exploded at quite a low altitude has uncovered a new impact risk that Earth's planetary defences might not be ready to fight. Asteroid 2023 CX1 burst into a ...